re: USPS is a flaming pile of radioactive garbage

Its the "US Government". I repeat, its the "US Government"

What the frick else do you expect?

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whatever "it" is, it's afflicting the denver processing center as well...i have a package that has been through and back to denver 3 times...

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What was it sent in? If it was in a box that was reused and that reused box had a barcode on it already it might explain why it has bounced back and forth. The package goes through the sorting machine at one facility and reads the barcode to your address. At the next facility that box is upside down and the machine reads the old barcode and kicks it towards that destination. Rinse and repeat.

This is more common than people think. They save a box that was sent to them, then reuse it and they won’t take a sharpie and run a line through the barcode that was used to get that box to them. It goes into the mail stream and bounces back and forth multiple times frustrating everyone involved.

Lesson here is that if you ship something out make damn sure that any existing barcodes used for tracking are marked up in a way that the sorting machines cannot read that barcode. The only barcode that should be able to be read by those machines is the one associated with the destination you are sending it too.

DEI has consequences.

Well, I spoke with USPS. The woman told me there actually is a barcode issue. I'm not quite sure I understand it, but Dallas keeps getting it and they show it's misread or something like that and send it back to Baton Rouge. (She says everything is done by machine, so I'm not sure how Dallas is catching that it's not supposed to be there.) When BR scans it, it shows it needs to go to Dallas so they send it back and the same thing is happening over and over again.

She created a file on it to investigate and get it sent to the correct address. She says they have to contact me within 2-3 business days regardless and to call if they do not. She sent me a text code to text the tracking number to get updates via text.

We'll see what happens.

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It arrived, though, in a different, smaller, box than what we sent it in with only half the items in it that we mailed. Not sure what happened to the other items and no one at USPS seems to know either. What a clusterfrick.

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Yeah, the woman I spoke with this morning assured me there was no funny stuff going on in Baton Rouge because that would be illegal......

I ordered and king cake one year shipped to a friend. She received the taped up empty box.

I ordered contact lenses 12/20/24, they shipped 12/31/2024 and I still don't have them. They have been in BR twice now, Tennessee, Texas. Idk who the frick is in charge but the whole system sucks. The post office advice to me was to just go to the eye dr at get some from their office. Gee thanks. I would do that but my prescription is special order.

I talked to a live human. They said my only option is to wait. I even asked if i could go to the processing facility and get my package and they said no.

UPS sucks, too. Package has been saying out for delivery for several days. So fed up with paying more money and it takes longer than promised.

Since someone bumped this, I’ll play: they haven’t been to our house since Friday due to snow. We have been coming and going at will since Sunday afternoon.

eta: today is one full week with no mail. I put a rare piece of outgoing mail in Tuesday. It's still there.

My package was delivered this morning, so whatever the USPS did after I called worked. I just now got a call from them confirming delivery and apologizing. The lady said she wasn't sure why it went back and forth, but that she knew the BR processing office got behind at Christmas and they were sending them elsewhere for handling. The first lady denied this and said that it was illegal.